Funny skits for males, twerking for females – Reno Omokri delivers judgement on Nigeria’s social media space

He stated that lately, young men in Nigeria are engaging in lots of skits making while the ladies are shaking their booty on social media, rather than reading books.

According to him, Nigerians are producing a generation addicted to pleasure and entertainment.

He noted that skit making is not the only alternative to internet fraud as there are other interesting things they can venture.

Comparing Nigerian youth to children in foreign countries, Omokri was of the view that while American kids are mowing their neigbour’s lawn for money to buy stocks, Nigerians are shaking their booty. He added that there is more to life than shaking booty or cracking jokes.

Taking to his Instagram page to share his thoughts, Reno Omokri wrote;

“Nigeria Is At Serious Risk of Becoming a Cruise-Only Nation

How many skit videos do your children watch daily? Be honest. Probably tens or even hundreds. How many books do they read daily? Probably none. Am I lying? Nigeria is producing a generation addicted to pleasure and entertainment. One Emmanuella was okay. Maybe even cute. But when you have hundreds of thousands of our young people all doing skits and sexy booty dances all over the social media spectrum, then perhaps there is a problem.

It is not only Southern Nigerian women that God gave buttocks to. And our young men are not the only ones with a sense of humour or fashion. Skitting is not the only other alternative to Yahoo and Yahoo Plus. There is blockchain. There is coding and game development. There is the stock market and forex trading. American children are mowing their neighbours’ lawns to earn money to buy NVIDIA stock. Please fact-check me. There is more to life than shaking booty and cracking jokes!

How are our children going to compete with Chinese and German children, who are not allowed to watch these videos but are given free devices to watch science, technological and educational videos? TikTok is about to be banned in America. But we just allow it to be proliferated without regulation in Nigeria. Meanwhile, in China, where it comes from, children are NOT permitted on TikTok. Again, please fact-check me. If I sell something to your child, but me, the manufacturer, refuse to consume it or allow my child near it, then I know something that you don’t.

Not all our children can grow to be the next Burna, Wizkid or Davido. Sports will only offer an escape for less than 1% of 1% of our youth. For every Osimhen in Napoli, there are fifty thousand in poverty. We will need professionals in STEM areas in the future. But in Southern Nigeria, we are raising many girls who only know how to do booty-shaking videos and boys who know little besides funny skits.”

Omokri’s submission has attracted several comments, with many supporting his claim;

hakolehaego: I went for a friend’s child one year birthday party and to my greatest surprise part of the children fun games was the dancing competition by children. I couldn’t believe seeing a 9 yr old twerking and winding like an adult. I can’t but agree totally with you Reno. Our children are daily corrupted by these social media apps

jamesjames7486: Nigeria is producing the highest number of Comedians compare to any other nation in African. Nigeria government should do something to stop the spread of young people getting into comedy. The world needs scientists, technology experts and not comedians. In just 20years to come at least 50 million young Nigerians will be comedians. I wonder where comedy will take a nation too

ogunyemioluwasanmi: Reno make sense in this to be honest… That’s the question i do ask my self everyday.

stevendusfx: I agree with you Sir 100%, I feel our government should be accountable for the lawless way social media is handled.

_olumeto: It’s important to have a regulatory body for checks, sanctions, and sentencing if required, apart from S** content, some are inciting religious violence, all in the name of media trend, there are manipulation, misinformation, disinformation, and consequential influences within our society if Media Content are not regulated

olayinkaflofalana: So true! We’re in serious trouble. My granddaughter spends so much time on TikTok; and when I challenge it the mother says I’m questioning her parenting skills!
It’s not funny at all. It’s serious stuff.